The History Workshop

The History Workshop, located at 110 Old Main Street, will be open April Vacation (April 21–25 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.). The space will be closed until May 2025 when we open for our main season. 

The History Workshop offers a drop-in space where visitors can explore and have fun in a variety of history-themed activity areas. Children and adults alike can learn and play historic games such as Nine Men’s Morris or table-top nine pins, use their imagination to cook and eat a pretend meal in a play hearth kitchen, dress up in eighteenth-century outfits, write on a slate at a desk from a one-room schoolhouse, play with miniatures in a dollhouse, weave on a loom, and more.

The History Workshop also features rotating educational themes and make-and-take crafts inspired by Historic Deerfield’s collections, exhibitions, and aspects of daily life in Deerfield over the centuries. Recent themes have included ceramic surface design, needlework, drawing and making pastels, chasing and repoussé on metal, almanacs and orreries, and tavern games.

All ages welcome!